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ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18

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Tree in the wrong place: maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) threaten regenerating kauri forest on Mt Pauanui, Coromandel. Photo: Waikato Regional Council

DISCLAIMER

The information in this publication represents the collective view of the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme. While every effort has been made to ensure the information in this publication is accurate, the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme does not accept any responsibility or liability for error of fact, omission, interpretation or opinion that may be present nor for the consequences of any decisions based on this information. Any view or opinion expressed does not necessarily represent the individual views of any of the members of the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme.

ISBN: 978-1-77665-985-2 (online) ISBN: 978-1-77665-986-9 (print)

Wilding conifers are New Zealand’s No. 1 weed. They already affect six percent of New Zealand and are

spreading exponentially.

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One year’s delay, and infestations can cost 30 percent more to control: Clarence River, Marlborough

CONTENTSPhase I highlights 02

A planned approach (2015-2030) 04

Programme governance and management 05

New project achievements 06

Programme science 09

Phase I control summary 10

Financial Report 2017/18 20

Before the national Programme, wilding conifer infestations were increasing

by five percent each year.

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PHASE I HIGHLIGHTS

In preventing the spread of wilding conifers, we must act now – as delays in treatment will quickly put the costs beyond our reach. We are at a tipping point.

Phase I of the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme has shown that we can get on top of our No. 1 plant pest – through a combination of improved technologies, focussed and coordinated efforts, and added funding. Our aim in Phase I was to tackle priority areas of infestation, and sort out systems and processes before potentially scaling the Programme up.

Having had a successful 2016/17 year, the Programme accelerated Phase I treatments in 2017/18 – so now 85 percent of these are complete. The remaining Phase I treatments – around 150,000 hectares – will be tackled in the coming (2018/19) year.

Control work to date has treated over 500,000 hectares of scattered infestation (around a third of our estimated national total), and over 40,000 hectares of dense and intermediate infestation (about 20 percent of the national total). We’ve also searched over a million hectares for any remote, outlier trees.

By the end of this – Phase I – the first round of treatment will be complete or nearly so in six of the Programme’s Management Units (MUs), while in another three we’ll have stopped wilding conifer spread and removed most problem seed sources. In ten MUs, we’ll have pushed spread back to some intermediate and dense infestations which are well beyond the scope of Phase I resourcing.

Planning is now underway for Phase II, which will involve follow-up treatments of many areas treated in Phase I, as well as removing some remaining, denser infestations – which will be considerably more expensive to treat. We are also assessing priorities and management options for infestations in areas outside of what was covered in Phase I.

This is just the first round of treatments, and success is a long-term game. To maintain these hard-won gains and stay on top of this pest we need ongoing partnership with local communities and authorities and for everyone involved to stay committed to our aims.

Roger SmithProgramme Chair, and head of Biosecurity New Zealand


PHASE I HIGHLIGHTS

We must act now – as delays in treatment will quickly put the costs beyond our reach.

In three years, the Programme has treated

over half a million hectares of wilding conifers and

searched the surrounding land for remote, outlier trees.

Most of these infestations were still in their early stages, so were highly cost-effective

to control.

Tackling priority areas of infestation: Cragieburn, Canterbury Photos: Nick Ledgard

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A PLANNED APPROACH (2015-2030)

Despite significant, ongoing control by private land holders, community groups, and central and local government agencies, wilding conifers have been spreading across New Zealand by more than five percent (90,000 hectares) each year. At that rate it was predicted they’d cover 20 percent of our land by 2030.

1998: $20 PER HA 2004: $1,500 PER HA 2014: $2,000 PER HA

CONTROL COSTS CAN ESCALATE RAPIDLY IF AN INFESTATION IS LEFT UNCHECKED.

Developing a Programme

In response, the NZ Wilding Conifer Management Strategy 2015-2030 was developed. The Strategy is implemented through the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme, which brings extra funding, coordination, and collaboration to wilding conifer control across New Zealand.

An additional $16 million was contributed by the Crown towards Phase I of this Programme.

Phase I

Phase I (2016-2019) has concentrated on areas with lighter infestations of the most spread-prone species, where further spread could be prevented (following the adage ‘a stitch in time saves nine’). The 19 Management Units selected for control in Phase I contain about half of New Zealand’s wilding conifer affected land.

Control work to date includes $12.4 million of Crown Programme funds, along with $5.8m in cash and in-kind, local contributions from Crown agencies, councils, land holders and community trusts. A further $4.6m of Programme funds and partner contributions is budgeted for 2018/19 control work.

Areas treated in Phase I will initially require follow-up every 3-4 years, although treatment costs become successively cheaper, as remaining seeds in the soil are exhausted. This means that ultimately, the Programme can (in most cases) hand responsibility for keeping the land wilding-free back to the land holder and wider community.

Phase II

Planning for Phase II of the Programme is currently underway. Within the 19 Management Units already worked in, Phase II will involve follow-up treatments of much of what was treated in Phase I, removing seedlings that have germinated since then, as well as removing some remaining denser infestations. These will be considerably more expensive to treat, which will require a significant Programme ramp-up.

Phase II planning also includes assessing priorities and management options for infestations in areas outside of what was covered in Phase I.


FUND HOLDER: Otago Regional

Council

MANAGEMENT UNIT (MU):

Queenstown Remarkables

MU MANAGER: Department of Conservation

CONTRACTING WORKFORCE:

Ground and aerial control operations

National Wilding Conifer Control Programme

Phase I funding has been targeted at nationally-

agreed priorities. Programme funds and co-

funding contributions, and contracts, have been

managed by the relevant regional council and local

partners, while the Programme has brought a

nationally coordinated approach to this work. This

collaboration has been instrumental to our success.

Control funding is allocated to Fund Holders,

based on nationally-agreed priorities, who in turn

fund control work across defined Management

Units (MUs). The MUs have one or more Project

managers, who oversee a contracting workforce of

ground or aerial operations.

In MUs where wilding control is funded by the

Programme, all land holders are included.

PROGRAMME GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Collaboration between local and Crown partners has been instrumental in the Programme’s success.

EXAMPLE

OPERATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP (OAG)

WILDING CONIFER GROUP (Independent)

TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP (TAG)

NATIONAL PROGRAMME TEAM (MPI, LINZ and DOC)

WILDING CONIFER CONTROL PROGRAMME - GOVERNANCE GROUP

TRUSTS FOREST OWNERS ASSOCIATION

NZDF MPI (CHAIR)

LINZ REGIONAL COUNCILS

DOC FEDERATED FARMERS

WINNING AGAINST

WILDINGS (MBIE funded)

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HORIZONS REGIONAL COUNCIL

MARLBOROUGH DISTRICT COUNCIL

OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL


NEW PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS

REVISED ONLINE PRESENCE

A refreshed website has been developed as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for control and other information about wilding conifers. It is based largely on content from the New Zealand Wilding Conifer Management Group (NZWCMG) website, and uses that original site’s URL – wildingconifers.org.nz.

The new site includes: guidance for land holders, updates from the Programme, science research, control good practice guides, and links to the Wilding Conifer Information System.

NEW WILDING CONIFER GROUP

The Programme’s stakeholder advisory group and the NZWCMG committee have worked together to merge into a single, independent stakeholder-led wilding conifer group – the Wilding Conifer Group.

An Interim Committee has been formed to guide the Group’s establishment.


NEW PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS

SIGNAGE

Layby area signs have been installed near some control areas where dead wilding conifers are publicly visible. More signs will be installed to accompany control work in the coming year.

GUIDANCE FOR LANDOWNERS

Some simple guidance has been developed to help land owners understand when they can clear tree weeds (including wilding conifers) without incurring a financial liability under the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). This guidance is on the Ministry for Primary Industries’ website (ETS section).

WILDING CONIFER INFORMATION SYSTEM

Fund managers have begun uploading their control work into the Wilding Conifers Information System. This gives us a far more accurate picture of infestations, and the control work undertaken there. The System also lets us measure and report on the Programme’s progress in controlling wilding conifers.

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The 2017 Survey of Rural Decision Makers, conducted by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, asked rural land owners if they knew of wilding conifers in their districts, and if so, of their attitudes toward them. This survey follows on from a similar one conducted in 2015.

Of the 4,000 respondents in 2017, 35% say wilding conifers are present in their districts, compared to 25% answering the 2015 survey – indicating either significant spread of wilding conifers or greater awareness among the rural population. In 2015, 23% of respondents who noted wilding conifers in their districts considered them beneficial; by 2017, this had dropped to 7%.

In a supplemental survey of 280 of these land owners who’d noticed wilding conifers in their districts, 44% say these are growing on their own and/or neighbours’ land.

The number of properties invaded by wilding conifers has increased exponentially since the late 1980s, and respondents report that the main seed sources are commercial forests, farm shelterbelts, and amenity plantings on their own and neighbours’ land.

Of these people, half find the infestations “extremely easy” or “easy” to control, while 17% find them “difficult”, and 4% “extremely difficult” to control.

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“I control wilding pines for aesthetic reasons and to

stop spread to neighbouring properties and into the

national park.” Verbatim comment, survey respondent


Around $15 million in wilding conifer research is underway to support the national Programme. Most is funded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and a smaller amount through the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Farming Fund.

The research includes:

• Producing sterile Douglas fir (to negate future spread from these commercial plantings)

• New control tools (to reduce treatment costs)

• Remote detection of wilding conifers (improving the efficiency of control)

• Better understanding the environmental impacts of wilding conifer invasion and control treatments.

• Improved models for wilding spread (to reduce spread-risk in commercial plantings)

The following pieces of this research have been delivered in 2017/18.

Rural Decision-makers’ survey – Project Lead Pike Brown, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

In a follow-up to the Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research 2017 Survey of Rural Decision Makers, land owners were asked for their views on wilding conifers and their control of them. The survey also asked their opinions about current and potential interventions to control spread.

Understanding invasion impacts – Project Lead Duane Peltzer, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

This research strand aims to help us better understand the consequences of invasion by wildings, and the ecological and ecosystem consequences of treating these invasions.

Towards this, a number of permanent field plots have been set up, and collaborations are underway with wilding conifer researchers in other countries. One recent finding is that lodgepole pine invasion causes greater declines in plant diversity in the southern hemisphere than in the north.

ABBA carrier oil report – Project Lead Carol Rolando, Scion

Aerial Basal Bark Application (ABBA) of herbicide can be the most cost-effective way to control medium-sized trees that are spread widely across the high country. This technique involves using a registered herbicide in conjunction with a carrier oil.

Scion Research reviewed the oil carriers used in ABBA, from an environmental and human health perspective. This review recommends vegetable oils (including biodiesels) over mineral oils as carriers – as they’re safer for humans and the environment.

PROGRAMME SCIENCE


PHASE I CONTROL

Phase I of the Programme involves 19 Management Units (MUs) which contain priority infestations. Within these, we have treated a third of all dense infestations and over 40 percent of the intermediate ones. We’ve also treated over three quarters of all their sparse and outlier infestations, and checked hundreds of thousands of hectares surrounding these – to ensure no trees had been missed.

Not surprisingly, the extensiveness of the Programme’s search and control operations brought more infestations to light than we knew were there. So, while we have greatly exceeded the Programme area of control, in some cases we haven’t yet finished the first round of treatment.

Ongoing, follow-up treatments will keep these areas wilding-free, with these costs progressively reducing as seed sources are removed and seeds in the soil die.

Within Phase I MUs, some infestations are so advanced that containment is our focus, while eradication is still feasible in others.

Our extensive operations uncovered new infestations in some areas – so we couldn’t complete their full treatments.

Treated outlier and sparse infestations, and surrounding

land searched: over 1.5 million ha

Treated intermediate infestations: 35,227 ha

Treated dense infestations: 6,794 ha


KAIMANAWA WEST

Programme funds have contributed to the later stages of cleaning up a legacy from old commercial plantings that spread wildings across surrounding lands in western Kaimanawa Management Unit (MU). This helps protect the Desert Road’s landscape and ecosystems (including Tongariro National Park), as well as the viability of NZ Defence Force lands for use as a training area.

KAIMANAWA EAST

In eastern Kaimanawa MU, the Programme has helped contain active spread from old erosion-control plantings in the Kaweka Ranges. To contain and control these to a manageable level will require significant future funding.

• Spread-prone trees were planted at Karioi Forest from the 1930s, as well as being used for farm shelterbelts, and amenity plantings in the Waiouru area. Also, around the middle of last century spread-prone trees were planted to control erosion in the Kaweka Ranges.

• Problem species include Pinus contorta, Scots pine, and Corsican pine.

• Since the 1960s, volunteer groups, government, and private landowners have put in ongoing efforts to control tree weeds across the MU.

• In Western Kaimanawa, the worst infestations were addressed by removing wilding forests encroaching on the Desert Road (beginning in the 1970s and in earnest from the late 1980s) and by logging and mopping up seed sources in Karioi Forest. In the early 1990s, controlled burning on NZ Defence Force land removed hundreds more hectares of wilding forest. Since then, NZDF has made widespread, intensive

efforts to reduce wilding density to low levels and keep it there.

• Without these ongoing efforts, the Desert Road and surrounds would today be covered in tall wilding pine forest.

During Phase I, $1.5 million of Programme funds was spent on the Kaimanawa MU (in addition to $2.3 million in local contributions).

Central North Island

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Searching for and treating outlier trees: Kaimanawa Ranges


We’ve pushed back wilding conifer spread across vulnerable and unique land in the upper Rangitikei, Ngaruroro, and Tutaekuri River catchments. This involved treating sparse and outlier trees on land administered by NZ Defence Force and Department of Conservation, as well as Ma-ori trust land, and private farmland. But there remain many dense infestations of coning trees, particularly in Hawkes Bay catchments.

“The Programme has further cemented our collective operations in this region. This includes expanding the combined operational planning and delivery of multiple stakeholders, and improving long-term protection, through more aligned regional pest plans.”

Craig Davey, Natural Resources Sector & Partnerships Co-ordinator, Horizons Regional Council.

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TSCENTRAL NORTH ISLAND REGION

TAUPO

Turangi

Taumarunui

Ohakune

Taihape

KAIMANAWA (2016-18)Dense treated: 590haIntermediate: 11,630haSparse/outliers treated: 58,740ha

wilding conifer infestations

first round of treatment complete or nearly complete

stopped spread & removed most problem seed sourcesstopped spread, but significant intermediate/dense infestations remain

LEGEND


Programme efforts have focussed on removing sparse and outlier wilding conifers – pushing the spread back to heavily infested areas in and around Tarndale. Removing these is the long-term goal.

The big terrain and isolation of Molesworth Station’s farmland and conservation areas makes wilding conifer control logistically challenging.

“Before the Programme became involved, the writing was on the wall for Molesworth but the extra investment has given us a chance to get on top of infestations here. It’s given those involved a large amount of confidence that these infestations can be reigned in.”

Jono Underwood, Biosecurity co-ordinator, Marlborough District Council.

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HLI

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TSMARLBOROUGH REGION

MOLESWORTH (2016-18)Intermediate treated: 480haSparse/outliers treated: 80,000ha

Picton

BLENHEIM




LEGEND

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We’ve been very effective in controlling sparse and outlier infestations of wilding conifers and preventing their further spread in Canterbury. Much of this spread has been in remote hill country, away from easy access. However there remain many dense areas of trees (including coning trees) that still need to be addressed.

“I think the Programme has helped firm up a lot of relationships, as people have come together who share a common purpose – everyone agrees the wilding pines have got to go – and that’s right across the board”

Steven Palmer, Biosecurity Advisor Special Projects, Environment Canterbury

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GH

TSCANTERBURY REGION

TEKAPO WEST (2016-18)Dense treated: 834haIntermediate treated: 3,667haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 52,861ha

HAKATERE (2016-18)Dense treated: 374haIntermediate treated: 1,241haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 320,149ha

GODLEY (2016-18)Dense treated: 183haIntermediate treated: 1,099haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 135,453ha

OHAU (2016-18)Dense treated: 985haIntermediate treated: 8,327haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 20,910ha

Waimate

ASHBURTON

TIMARU


CANTERBURY REGION

LEWIS (2016-18)Sparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 268,194ha

CRAGIEBURN (2016-18)Dense treated: 2,232haIntermediate treated: 2,877haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 182,909ha

TEKAPO EAST (2016-18)Dense treated: 108haIntermediate treated: 232haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 50,710ha

FOUR PEAKS (2016-18)Dense treated: 223haIntermediate treated: 407haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 34,796ha

PORTERS (2016-18)Dense treated: 520haIntermediate treated: 3,076haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 174,886ha

Kaikoura

CHRISTCHURCH




LEGEND


Despite a previous combined spend of around $300,000 a year, the Crown and local stakeholders struggled to contain wilding spread from old erosion-control plantings in the Waimakariri River headwaters.

Around $2 million in Programme funds, added to around $800,000 in local contributions, allowed a concentrated effort, which got on top of things. After treatment follow-ups, the costs of control will plummet and bring significant long-term savings to locals and Crown agencies.

This wilding conifer control protects recreational and biodiversity values and productive farmland east of Arthur’s Pass. These areas have high local and international visitor use, and are on the edge of Arthur’s Pass National Park.

• Erosion control trials from the 1950s-80s have since spread wilding conifers infestations across the surrounding land. This includes significant productive farmland, and areas with high biodiversity, recreation and landscape values.

• Problem species include Pinus contorta, mountain pine, and Douglas fir.

• Ongoing work has been undertaken by the Waimakariri Ecological and Landscape Restoration Alliance (WELRA), residents and land holders (including Flock Hill Holdings), ski field operators, DOC, LINZ, and Environment Canterbury.

• In 2015 a 330 ha wildfire took out some infestations.

• From 2016-18, $2 million of Programme funding was added to $800 thousand of ECan, DOC, WELRA community group, and land occupier contributions, and we turned the situation around.

• Helicopter logging of a large, mature, and spread-prone Forestry Service plantation is due to commence in the coming year.

• Farmers have regained the use of previously grazed land lost to wilding conifers, and surrounding conservation areas such as Arthur’s Pass National Park and the Korowai/Torlesse

Tussocklands Park have been protected from invasion.

• This work has shown that with appropriate levels of funding up front, significant wilding conifer infestations can be rapidly and efficiently removed, providing significant savings to all parties in the medium to long term.

• Further work is required to remove some remaining high spread risk amenity plantings and smaller seedlings, including two or three more rounds of follow-up treatment.

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Treatment of an early stage, sparse infestation: Canterbury


The Programme funded a concerted effort to get on top of the relatively early stages of infestation in Lammermoor Management Unit (MU).

Through this, we’ve protected an extensive area that’s highly vulnerable to invasion and contains significant conservation values, and highly sensitive and important water catchments (including that of Dunedin City), as well as large areas of vulnerable farmland.

• Wilding infestations in Lammermoor MU come from shelter belt plantings, plantation forestry and amenity plantings around farms.

• Problem species include Pinus contorta, Douglas fir, and Pinus radiata.

• Infestations were still quite manageable in 2015, and with Programme help, The Central Otago Wilding Conifer Control Group’s five-year control strategy has been achieved within three years.

• Around $500,000 was spent on this work, just under half of which was Programme contributions.

• Further work includes engaging with land holders to replace shelter belts with less spread-prone species, and encourage commercial forest owners to contribute more to the cost of controlling wilding spread and ensure future forests are not planted in spread-prone species.

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Sparse infestation of wilding Pinus radiata: Alexandra


Involves tackling more expensive (dense and/or remote) infestation.


In Central Otago, we’ve largely controlled all the sparse and outlier wilding conifers – most of which have come from planted stands and shelterbelts. Around Wakatipu, we’ve made significant gains, but there remain many large, problem seed sources outside our current controls that are a source of wilding spread – particularly around the wider Wakatipu basin.

“With Programme funding we’ve accelerated the work being done by local wilding conifer control groups and their programme managers and contractors, with massive results – which we’re just now starting to see. And we’ve seen an extremely high buy-in from landowners contributing towards the Programme. It’s hugely satisfying.”

Richard Lord, Team Leader Biosecurity Compliance, Otago Regional Council.

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TSOTAGO REGION

Queenstown

Balclutha

DUNEDIN

OAMARU

KAWARAU (2016-18)Dense treated: 194haIntermediate treated: 337haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 18,949ha

REMARKABLES (2016-18)Dense treated: 21haIntermediate treated: 420haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 42,421ha

ST MARY-IDA (2016-18)Sparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 111,061ha

LAMMERMOOR (2016-18)Intermediate treated: 1,348haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 36,152ha

NORTHERN EYRE (2016-18)Intermediate treated: 36haSparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 35,760ha

DUNSTAN (2016-18)Sparse/outliers treated and surrounding land searched: 85,080ha




LEGEND


SOUTHLAND REGION

INVERCARGILL

FIVE RIVERS (2016-18)Sparse/outliers treated: 7,300ha

MID DOME (2016-18)Dense treated: 440haSparse/outliers treated: 15,300ha

We’ve been containing the spread of wilding conifers at Mid Dome, and begun to remove the core, dense infestations there.

“Prior to the Programme, local land holders and the Mid Dome Wilding Trees Charitable Trust were nibbling at the edges of the core area of wildings, and working their way back to these dense areas. Extra Programme funding has allowed us to make headway in tackling these dense areas of wilding conifers that have been a persistent, ongoing seed source in the area.”

Randall Milne, Senior Biosecurity Officer, Environment Southland.

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LEGEND


FINANCIAL REPORT 2017/18

MACKENZIE - TEKAPO WESTFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 1,073,598 ECAN 20,000 DOC 15,000 Private Landowners 410,580 Total 1,519,178

MACKENZIE - TEKAPO EASTFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 432,521 ECAN 60,000 DOC 7,000 Other (land owner) 104,000 Total 603,521

MACKENZIE - FOUR PEAKSFUNDER ACTUALS ($)*National Programme 128,000ECAN 50,000Private Occupiers 5,000Total 183,000

MACKENZIE - OHAUFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 1,160,000DOC 60,000 Landowners 200,000 Total 1,420,000

ARTHURS PASS - PORTERSFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 60,000 ECAN 40,000 DOC 5,000 Landowners 40,000 Total 145,000

HAKATEREFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 315,000 ECAN 63,000 DOC 29,000 Private Occupiers 30,000 Total 437,000

KAIMANAWAFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 423,100 HBRC 38,821 WRC 2,000 HRC 40,555 DOC-HB 74,633 DOC-Taupo 35,000 Total 614,109

CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND

MOLESWORTHFUNDER ACTUALS ($)*National Programme 743,687 DOC 198,151 Landcorp 44,080 Total 985,918

MARLBOROUGH

CANTERBURY

AMURI - LEWISFUNDER ACTUALS ($)*National Programme 223,000ECAN 42,000DOC 30,000Private Occupiers 32,000Total 327,000

ARTHURS PASS - CRAGIEBURNFUNDER ACTUALS ($)National Programme 405,000 ECAN 36,000 DOC 24,335 Private Occupiers 14,000 Total 479,335

NATIONAL PROGRAMME

ACTUALS ($)

National Wilding Conifer Information System (LINZ) 160,000

Programme Management, Communications and Behaviour Change, good practice development, workforce capability, monitoring and evaluation

336,000

Total 496,000

PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT & RELATED ACTIVITIES

*includes Programme funds carried over from 2016-17


QUEENSTOWN - KAWARAU

FUNDER ACTUALS ($)

National Programme 304,467

WCG (QLDC/DOC/LINZ/ Other) 214,643

Total 519,110

QUEENSTOWN - REMARKABLES

FUNDER ACTUALS ($)

*National Programme 471,924


Total 674,670

CENTRAL OTAGO - LAMMERMOOR

FUNDER ACTUALS ($)


ORC 31,400

CODC/DCC/CDC 48,600

Private Occupiers 80,000

Total 400,000

OTAGO

FINANCIAL VARIANCE

NATIONAL PROGRAMME FUNDING, CARRIED OVER TO 2018-19 ($)

Central North Island - Kaimanawa 50,000

Marlborough - Molesworth 28,316

Queenstown - Northern Eyre 29,163

Queenstown - Remarkables 13,098

Total 120,586

QUEENSTOWN - NORTHERN EYRE

FUNDER ACTUALS ($)

*National Programme 158,113


Total 203,513

NORTHERN SOUTHLAND - FIVE RIVERS

FUNDER ACTUALS ($)


Mid Dome Wilding Trust 32,000

Total 80,000

NORTHERN SOUTHLAND - MID DOME

FUNDER ACTUALS ($)


Environment Southland (Mid Dome Trust)

288,000

Lotteries 100,000

Total 1,343,800

SOUTHLAND

TOTAL PROGRAMME EXPENDITURE 2017/18 $8,575,163

Leaving a legacy of the right tree in the right place.

Treating infestations: Kawarau Management Unit, Queenstown

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